Martin Roberts to remain in hospital after emergency operation

Homes Under The Hammer’s Martin Roberts to stay in hospital ‘for WEEKS’ as doctors discover lung infection – after operation for heart condition which left him with ‘hours to live’

  • The presenter, 58, is to stay in hospital for at least another two weeks was rushed in for an emergency operation  
  • The former I’m A Celeb star is now recovering and thanked ‘god and angels’ on social media this week
  • It comes after his two-day ‘mercy dash’ to drive supplies to Ukraine in March

Martin Roberts is to stay in hospital for at least another two weeks after undergoing an emergency operation for a heart condition which left him hours from death.

The Homes Under The Hammer presenter, 58, suffered a health scare on Wednesday and was rushed to hospital in Bath for the operation following chest pains due to ‘fluid around the heart’.

Former I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! campmate Martin thanked ‘god and angels’ on social media this week after coming round from the operation but he has since revealed he expects to be in hospital for a while longer still.

Staying put: Martin Roberts, 58, is to stay in hospital for at least another two weeks after undergoing an emergency operation for a heart condition which left him hours from death

He told The Sun: ‘I’m being transferred to the respiratory team today as they think it might have started with a serious lung infection.

‘I may be in hospital for another two weeks.’

Taking to Twitter to share a video explaining what had happened this week, he captioned the post: ‘So. Bit of a shocker. Thankfully I’m here to tell the tale…’ 

Shock: The Homes Under The Hammer presenter, 58, suffered a health scare on Wednesday and was rushed to hospital in Bath for the operation following chest pains

Speaking out: The TV star took to Twitter to share a video explaining what had happened, captioning the post: ‘So. Bit of a shocker. Thankfully I’m here to tell the tale…’

Martin said: ‘Well, I have to say this isn’t where I expected to be watching Homes Under The Hammer.

‘Little bit of good news, little bit of bad news. I ended up in hospital in Bath yesterday.

‘I had a few chest pains and just feeling generally lousy, so I was brought in here and turns out I had a massive amount of fluid all around my heart, which was actually stopping my heart working.

‘Had they not got rid of it, which they did in an emergency operation last night, then it’s sort of quite serious, like, hours to live kind of c**p.

Unexpected: Martin said: ‘Well, I have to say this isn’t where I expected to be watching Homes Under the Hammer,’ as he shared a shot of his hospital bed

Health woes: The Homes Under The Hammer presenter (pictured with the series’ original presenter Lucy Alexander) had ‘fluid around the heart’ and had just ‘hours to live’

‘So here I am, still around, thank goodness, thank god and angels, all those things.’

He continued: ‘There’s lots of other complicated things that have happened as a result, but we will work through those, and I’ll keep you updated.

‘Meanwhile, there’s a good TV show on that I think I’ll watch here.’

It comes after he updated fans on the progress of his two-day ‘mercy dash’ to drive supplies to Ukraine in March. 

Doing good: It comes after he updated fans on the progress of his two-day ‘mercy dash’ to drive supplies to Ukraine in March

Martin looked exhausted as he admitted to having just a few hours’ sleep as he prepared for the second leg of his journey, a 13 to 16 hour drive across Germany and Poland. 

He revealed that he was going to drive a car packed full of supplies across Europe to help those affected by Putin’s attacks on Ukraine.  

In a short clip, the tired star asked fans for song choices to get him through the long drive and said he was fuelled on ‘wine gums and lots of Red Bull’ but that he felt a a ‘massive responsibility’ to safely deliver the supplies to the Ukraine/Poland border. 

Many expressed concern that the TV presenter had taken on too much in trying to drive for 26 hours with only a short break.  

On the road: He revealed that he was going to drive a car packed full of supplies across Europe to help those affected by Putin’s attacks on Ukraine

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